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Who was the first president to explicitly “pardon” a turkey?
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Although PBS noted that Abraham Lincoln once spared a turkey at the request of his son Tad and John F. Kennedy quietly sent a gifted Thanksgiving turkey back to its farm, Ronald Reagan was the first to explicitly use the word “pardon” while doing this. His successor, George H.W. Bush, would then formalize the Thanksgiving turkey pardon into a presidential tradition.
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Who was the first president to explicitly “pardon” a turkey?
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Reagan
- Abraham Lincoln
- George H.W. Bush
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